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Drawing on Experience The charming and altruistic side-hustle of Hasbro Children’s Hospital pediatric surgeon-in-chief When Francois Luks, MD PhD, pediatric surgeon-in-chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, meets with the parents of a young patient before a complex operation, he turns to illustration to calm their nerves. On a whiteboard in an exam room, Dr. Luks will sketch up a quick diagram of a part of the body and how he’ll eventually operate on it, walking the parent through the surgery step by step with simple visual cues. He whips out a pad of paper and sketches a graceful side profile in one swift motion to demonstrate how he might visually explain a neck lesion operation, as one example. Illustration by Francois Luks SORhodeIsland.com • September 2021
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